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Re:At all-hands meeting, Musk tells employees Twitter may go... by Comevius on Thursday November 10, 2022 @05:21PM (#33554386)
YouTube Premium is completely ad-free though, and it also let's you download videos and music for unlimited offline use without any DRM.
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Re:At all-hands meeting, Musk tells employees Twitter may go... by MallocVoidstar on Thursday November 10, 2022 @05:40PM (#33554629)
I don't think this is true: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/11977233

>Downloaded videos can be played offline for up to 29 days. After that, you'll need to reconnect your device to the internet.

That sounds like DRM. The page also seems to suggest that you need to use youtube.com to watch videos, not a file on your system.

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Re:At all-hands meeting, Musk tells employees Twitter may go... by Comevius on Thursday November 10, 2022 @06:19PM (#33555064)
It looks like you are right, it saves offline-enabled content to a number of encrypted blobs only the official app can play.

I wouldn't now, I use yt-dlp that can also make use of YouTube cookies, since otherwise YouTube is not DRM protected like Netflix is for example.

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